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fl,e Pilot Covers Ijjriinswick Ooiinty THE STATE PORT PILOT Most of The News All The Time Southport, N. C., Wednesday, February 4th, 1948 published every Wednesday ?1.50 per yea* thools Remain Closed All This Week As Brunswick Thaws Following Freeze Residents Of County L| Hardships Resulting Winter's Icy Blast thlCh Struck Over Past leek-End n? PROPERTY n damage RESULTS ? Damage To Timber mds And As Result Of Accidents; Pow ,r Failure Over Much Of County j terv week-end which left wick county citizens shiver the effects of a record Jc of sleet and ice had dis ced front the scene by Tues ;ut in its wake still remain angle of electric power and s.me lines, broken trees and , ami muddy roads still al im passable. a result. Brunswick county ii were scheduled to remain d for the remainder of this > This action was decided I Monday night at a meeting * Brunswick county board of ?:?n. (rather which had been un Bnt and threatening on, pay and Friday of last week Mped into one of winter's j i srim efforts Saturday as ice a began to form on trees, jiays and other exposed sur- J i By noon electric power had i off in most of the areas in B?ick county, and the high i ?ere in the dangerous state, i tsrday night brought the trouble, and when residents \up Sunday morning they j ii trees bent dojvn with heavy tigs of ice, and in many! i of the county a coating of i one-half inch to three inches j k and hominy snow. ^ ^ .i t iw?r seryjce wgs Strrupted except in a" few (ices where trees and limbs e power lines running into s. Chief source of worry i the standpoint of utilities i from frozen water pipes & had plumbers working over Sunday and Monday. Traffic acle to move about the ts of the city Sunday morn dodglng broken limbs and deb out there was little travel lay A warm sun Monday ed most of the ice from this it in the county there still ! small patches of Ice and tas late as this (Wednesday) ang, and telephone and elec i?wer company workers were working to get their facili la a usable state-or repair, wer.tatives of the State way Department also were repairing major damage re Jg from the ice storm and fcng freezing weather. tritf Ntut Flathit Ss TO MEET * regular meeting of the iport Lions Club will be held Trow* (Thursday) at the fflunity Center Building. RM rk improving L. P.ourk, prominent resi of Leland, is said to be to be about a little and his & improving. He suffered a w heart attack shortly be Christinaa. 1 <HOSS KOI. L CALL k R?<l Cross Roll Call for Swick county is scheduled to underway March 1st. Mrs. 8 C Bragaw, chairman of Brunswick cjunty Chapter of American Red Cross, and * officials, are making active " for the yearly event. ^ EXTENDED JW was received here today 1 ^ March of Dimes cani & has been extended through "a,y M This decision was af.'.r bad weather had ^ Post|x nement for this week "?y ?1 the schools throughout !>TI l?E.\T i !t '' Frank Plaxco, Jr., J Mr and Mrs. Robert F. I 1 Southport, was on the I? ^tinguished students at J/rr'' Military School, Way Va. for the academic ending January 23, having J* rt'juirements of no grade i?er cent. Brunswick County White Man Found Dead Tuesday Hollis Williamson Found In Dying Condition On Auto mobile With Motor Running Hollis Williamson, well known Brunswick county man, was found in a dying condition in his parked car at the Charlie Rob bins filling station on Route 17 a mile west of the Brunswick River bridge Tuesday morning. State highway patrolman R. C. Duncan, the first officer to arrive on the scene, removed him from the car and rushed him to the Wilming ton hospital. He was dead upon arrival there. Coroner John G. Caison was summoned. Investigation led to the suspicion that there may have been foul play. The stomach and other vital organs were removed and sent to Duke Hospital in Durham for an examination to discover the cause of the death. Coroner Caison stated this morn ing that upon the report from Duke depends whether or not an inquest will be held. The engine of the car was still running when Williamson was! found, according to Coroner Cai-' son. There is a possibility that he died of carbon monoxide pois on, however, Coroner Caison felt that the circumstances warranted' a full Investigation as to the cause of death. | The deceased was about 35 years of age, was a son of J. B. | Williamson of Ash. His mother died several years ago. In addi-! 'tion to his father he is survived by four brothers, Odell William son of Shallotte; Glenn, Curtis and Ulys Williamson of Ash; a sister, Mrs. Sherman Register, of Wilmington, and two younger twin sisters in Columbus county, residing with relatives of his 'mother. Their names were not learned this morning. It is understood that the fun | eral will be held in Waccamaw \ownship. Highway Commission Will Decide Today On Contracts E. W. Grannis Co., Of Fay etteville, Was Low Bid-1 der On Two Projects For! ' Which Proposals Were j Opened Last Thursday In, Raleigh ^OMBHSSION WILL , YaIs ON THEM TODAY Total Amount Of Bids Is $336,346.55 For Surfac- i ing Two Roads And | For Providing Neces sary Structures Low bidder on two Brunswick I county road projects last week j was the E. W. Grannis Company I of Fayetteville which asked a ! total of $336,346.55 for the con struction of 17 miles of grading and bituminous serfacing. This j bid Is subject to approval or re jection by the State Highway ! Commission today in Raleigh. In detail the bids were for grad | ing, surfacing and structures on i 8.56 miles from U. S. 17 at Kir by's Store, one and a half miles I west of Supply, southward to the i intracoastal waterway at Holden's | Beach. $150 920.00. ] Grading, surfacing and struc I tures on 8.92 miles from U. S. 17 at Grissettown, north through Longwood to Route 130 at Sol dier's Bay church near Ash, $173, 085.05 for road, $31,241.50 for structures. Lengthy Docket j For Recorder Traffic Cases Again Feat ' . ure Matters To Come Be fore Judge W. J. Mc Lamb In Brunswick Re corder's Court Cases that had accumulated {during the past two weeks were I i tried Wednesday before Judge W.1 | J. McLanib, making it a busy day j I for him and other court officials. | As usual, traffic counts featured ! the docket, disposition of which I was as follows: | Arthur Rosenfield, speeding, $10.00 and costs. I Arthur L. Engerterth, speeding, $10.00 and costs. ] Dallas Pigott, speeding, con tinued. Roy Gore, reckless operation, J continued. i Robert E. Bell, possession, 90 j days on roads, suspended on pay-1 ment of $100.00 fine and costs. 1 Noah A. Shelly, possession, 90' days on. roads, suspended on pay-! ment of $100.00 fine and costs, j I John Alvin Chartier and Harry; (Edward Cowen, housebreaking j (and larceny, plead guilty to petty| larceny, 90 days on roads, sus pended on payment of costs and the defendants to be of good be havior for a period of two years. No probable cause found in case | of Robert Glenn Larking, who 1 was arranged on the samt charge. | John Henry Wells, reckless op eration, continued. George Smith, recklcss opera ! (Continued ? on page Two) Stockholders Get Dollar Divided A dividend of $1.00 per share ] and totaling $20,000.00 Is now being distributed to stockhold ers of the Waccamaw Bank & Trust Company, Prince O'Brien and J. E. Cooke, cashiers in Southport and Shallotte, an nounced today. The dividend, declared at a recent meeting of the directors of the bank, Is payable to ap proximately 200 stockholders of record as of December 31, 1947. At the same meeting, $100, 000.00 was transferred from un divided profits to the surplus account, bringing tt up to S600.000.00. Total capital ac count of the bank is now slight ly more than one million dol lars. Famed Conductor To Build Here Dr. Thor Johnson Has Pur chased A Lot And Soon Will Begin Construction Of Cottage At Caswell Beach Dr. Thor Johnson, who receiv ed his degree in music at the University of North Carolina in 1934, and now is Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orches tra, one of the most widely famed musical organizations in the country, will shortly begin the construction of a summer home at Caswell Beach. Dr. Johijson, who is currently described as having "arrived in the music world," spent part of last summer at Caswell Beach and Southport. Charmed with ihe beach and the fact that artists in various fields arc being at tracted here, he bought property [at the beach and the construction of his home will be a further step j towards his becoming a regular [visitor to t'.iis area. Concerning Dr. Johnson, News week recently had this to say: "His appointment to the Cincinna ti Symphony Orchestra, which 1 opened Its 53rd season (last Oct ober). is a triumph for the cause of American conductors." I The orchestra includes in its present personnel 86 virtuoso players and is regarded as one of (the nation's major symphonies. Its new conductor is a typical American as his name stands out among the other six men who have preceedcd him in his pre sent post: van de Stucken, Sto kowski, Kunwald, Ysaye, Reiner and Uoossens. At the age of 13 Dr. Johnson organized and led an orchestra of j 17 players. At the University of North Carolina he quickly identi fied himself as possessing unusual talent. He organized the Carolina Ensemble, playing concerts on the (Continued On Page 5) About 100 Blind In This County Says Supervisor All Deaf And Blind Child ren Should Be In School Says Welfare Superinten dent, Who Seeks Infor mation To Help Them MISS MARY LOVETTE IS CASE WORKER Part Of Her Duties Include Supervision Of Thirty Children In County Re ceiving Blind Aid In an interview this week Miss Mary Lovett, case worker for the State Blind Commission in four southeastern North Carolina coun ties, stated that there are ap proximately 100 blind persons in Brunswick county. These figures cover both white an'd colored. The last census showed 99 such af flicted residents of the county. Among the approximately 100. blind in Brunswick are 30 child ren who are receiving financial or other aid. Looking after these: are one of her special duties in j the four counties that comprise I her district. I In connection with the work! of Miss Lovett, Miss Ruth Patter-j son, county welfare superinten-l dent has the duty of seeing that all blind or deaf children between the age of 7 and 17 attend school. The state provides schools for such students and it is the duty of the welfare office to sec to it that all of them attend school and receive an education and learn a trade or vocation. Miss Patterson will appreciate information relative to any white or colored deaf or blind children in Brunswick who are not in school. Vessels Anchor For Few Days Transport And Oil Tanker Brought In Here By Tugs To Await Arrival Of Bet-1 ter Weather [ With the date of Its leaving still indefinite, a big army trans port under tow arrived here Sat-, urday, January 24th. Bound from the South enroute to Baltimore1 the transport and tug pulling it | encountered very bad weather off Frying Pan Shoals on the 24th, finally putting it here to await better weather. A member of the crew of the tug stated that they passed the Frying Pan lightship at two o'clock that morning. They thought they were making good headway, despite the freshening gale. However, at 7 o'clock that morning they found themselves just abreast the lightship that they had passed hours before. The rising seas were threatening to break the tow in, so they turned about and put in here. The same morning a huge oil tanker, empty and in tow of a tug, also put in here. Like the transport it has remained. Both vessels, empty of cargo, are rid ing light and high. They present too much of an obstacle to the wind and seas for the masters of the tugs to care to risk losing them. w. B. KEZIAH Our ROVING Although he comcs to South port often of his own accord or in the course of business, we have found out a sure way to bring our friend O. G. Bain, manager of the Wilmington district of the Bell Telephone Company, down here at any time. The method is simple. All of Brunswick county west of Winnabow is badly in] need of telephone service. There should be a switchboard at Sup ply or Shallotte and there are enough assured users of the ser vice to justify it as a good busi ness proposition. We think those phortes should come soon. Any way, whenever we want to see our friend Bain we only have to write something for the paper about the nfced of phone service at the above places. He straight way puts in appearance at the offi'ye and requistions all ^xtra copies of the paper. A couple of weeks ago wlille, . we were down in Lockwoods Folly I township we gave Mr. C. H. Cai- j 1 son a copy of this paper. He was 1 told to take it home and read it; if he liked it we would appreciate! having him as a subscriber. Mr. j Caison has not said anything i aboi\t liking it?not in so many words?but in our mail this week! I was $3.00 from him to us. He wanted to subscribe for two| ; years, he said. He is now credit- j ed with being paid up to 1950 and we certainly appreciate the j 'evidence that he liked the copy we gave him. I Elwood Cheers and Alton Mil ligan returned to their homes at' Shallotte a few days ago, having j graduated from an electrical I i school that they have been at tending in Chicago for the past several months. The boys say [ it started snowing in Chicago on I I Thanksgiving day and has been I (Continued on Page Five) ' FOR USE IN SHRIMP SURVEY COMING?The "Reliance", large seagoing schooner shown above, will begin a survey of the shrimping grounds off the coast of North Carolina within the next few days. A crew sailed from Woods Hole, Mass., aboard the vessel Monday and will come to Southport to make a beginning on the off-shore operations.?(Cut Courtesy Wilmington Post.) Board Seeking Means For Care Of Home Inmates Board Members Instruct Welfare Superintendent To Obtain Figures On Boarding Out Inmates Of County Home Most of the time that the members of the board of county p'ommissioners were in session iiotc Monday was sppnt-in discuss ing what action is to be taken in the matter of the county h'?>me! Two .week' ago member^. of a Brunswick county grarid jOry in their report to Judge Q. K. Nim ocks made the recommendation that the county home 'be discon tinued and that some arrangement be made for the care of the in mates. On Monday the commissioners instructed Welfare Superintendent Ruth Patterson to make an in vestigation into the matter of (Continued on page five) New Doctor Now At Shallotte Dr. L. J. Taubenhaus Is Taking Over Practice Of Dr. M. M. Rosenbaum, Who Is In I^jew York Doing Graduate Work Dr. L. J. Taubenhaus has moved to Shallotte and has taken over the practice of Dr. M. M. Rosen baum. Dr. Rosenbaum, who has been a practicing physician at Shallotte for the past 10 years, save only for the time he spent in the U. S. Army Medical Corps (Continued on Page 2). Shrimp Survey Promises To Enlarge Operations Locally Shrimp Boats Make Unusual Catches Southport shrimp trawlers made a most unusual catch last week and again Tuesday, bringing in hundreds of hinhrls or rwenhaden of all sites. Roth well arid Johnnie Simmons start ed this'business last Thursday, and yesterday.. Captain Sandy Simmons had the hold of the big Rosallna completely full knd about a thousand pounds over flowing on her decks. Other boats made like patch es. A Wilmington seafood deal er boujrht several hundred pounds to be cut up and used as bait for catfish up the river. The menhaden factory took everything else. It 1? a rare thing for even one or two men haden to be caught In the. shrimp trawls that are dragged on the floor of the ocean. Catch ing them by the thousands re ; suits from cold surface waters I making them swim deep. About i all of the big boats that have ] any cargo capacity are out for | menhaden today. .Menhaden boats are also out j today. These big craft, however, j have to depend on the schools | of fish being near l<e surface, [ where they can bo spotted. Captain J. B. Church said this ! morning that there was un | doubtedly plenty of menhaden out there and can be taken if favorable weather comes along. Fall Fatal To Southport Lady Miss Louise Watson Suffer ed Fatal Injuries In Fall When She Slipped On Ice Thursday Morning; Fu neral Sunday Unaware of the fact that the front porch of her sister-in-law's home had a light coating of ice, Miss Louise Watson, highly {esteemed Southport woman, daughter of the ldtc Dr. D. I. and Mrs. Watson, slipped and fell early Thursday morning, suffer ing injuries to the back of her head from which she died that night at 8 o'clock." Her sister-in-law, Mrs. Geo. Y. Watson, was in Jacksonville, Fla., attending the funeral of her lincle. Captain Betts Potter. Miss Wat son had gone next door to sec that everything at the home of her relative was in good order. Miss Watson was 63-years of age and was a devout member of the Southport Baptist church. Her nearest surviving relatives are a brother, Archie Watson, and sev eral neices and nephews. As the Baptist church is be ing rebuilt, the funeral services were held from the residence here Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The services were in charge of Rev. H. M. Baker of the Baptist church,' assisted by i (Continued on page five) : Belief Is Freely Expressed That Coming Experiments May O e v el o p e New Shrimping Grounds Off Southport * SCIENTIFIC STUDY IS BEING PLANNED Thorough- Investigation Of Waters Off The Carolina Coast Will Be Conduc ted By Men In Char ge Of Work During the past several years j too many little shrimp and too, few big ones have been caught along the North Carolina coast, | j and within a few days now work j I will commcnce at Southport to | find out what makes the little1 I shrimp and where bigger ones j can be found. The Reliance, an 85-foot two j masted seagoing schooner with several hundred thousand dollars J worth of equipment aboard, left I | Woods Hole, Mass., Monday, ac- i cording to W. S. Wells, chairman ' of the North Carolina shrimp I survey commission. This vessel' should arrive here within the next! j few days and with a crew of 13 | j men, including several technicans, ! will set about the day and night 1 task of locating new shrimping' grounds at a distance offshore,! where shrimping cannot now be carried on owing to obstructions j being unchartered. The work will cover all the' present shrimping areas along [ i the North Carolina coast. I If shrimping grounds are dis- j | covered at a distance offshore j J here or at any point, the South iport?owned boats will * be the | best prepared to take advantage of the distant fishing. Within the ' past few years by buying some and building others, Southport fishing interests have built up the most powerful shrimping fleet anywhere North of Flordia. Most of these boats are 50-footcrs and better, having heavy duty diesel engines, ship-to-ship phones, some with fathometers and nearly all (continued on page two) Double Wreck Causes Arrest Young Southport White' Man Arrested Sunday And Charged With Ope ration Of Truck Involved; In Twin Accidents Robert Johnson, young South ! port white man. was arrested Sunday night and lodged in Jail, charged wttli drunken driving and reckless operation resulting in damage to property. Johnson is alleged to have driv en a wood truck owned by John Hewett into the front of the new car of W. S. Wells, causing con siderable damage. Following this he backed off and sideswiped a (Continued on Pag* rive) Commission On Tour Of County Schools Friday Committees From State Education Will Visit The Schools Of Brunswick Friday As Part Of State Wide Survey INFORMATION TO HELP LEGISLATION State Education Commission Appointed Last Year By Governor To Study School Program Committees from the State Ed ucation Commission will visit schools in Brunswick county on. Friday of this week during a statewide study of North Caro lina's public school system. Information gathered in the survey will be used in compiling a report to the 1949 General As sembly, with possible recommend ations for changes and improve ments in the education program. This section of North Carolina has been selected by the Commis sion as one of the special study areas in the survey of the entire educational system of the state. School officials are cooperating with the Commission in the study and will make their entire facili ties available to visiting commit tee memebrs. Dr. John Brewton of Nashville, Tenn., general consultant, will be in charge of visits of committee in the Instructional Program field. Committee members will study secondary education, ele mentary education, vocational ed-~ ucation, pupil personnel and per sonnel services, adult education, the education of exceptional child ren and instructional materials. Visitors to other schools will investigate finance, organization and administration, transporta? tion and school plants. The visiting committees are 'among 15 groups working with the State Education Commission. The Commission was appointed by the Governor following authoriza tion by the 1947 General Assem bly. R. Grady Rankin of Gastonia is chairman and W. H. Plem nions of Chapel Hill, executive secretary. Supply Resident Buried Sunday Charles A. Hewett Dies In Marine Hospital In Balti more, Md., Following A Brief Illness Charles A. Hewett, 40-year old resident of Supply, died in the U. S. Marine hospital in Baltifnort Thursday morning. Mr. Hewett is understood to have been ill only a short time preceeding his death. The body was brought back to Supply and funeral services were held at the home Sunday after noon at 1 o'clock. Rev. Matt Gore bad charge of the services. Burial was in the Silent Grove cemetary, near the home. The deceased fs surviving by his wife, Mrs. Etta H. Hewett; a son, Charles A. Hewett, Jr., two daughters, Mrs. Irene H. Bellamy and Miss Gertrude He (Continued on page five) W.B. & S. Buses Keep Schedule ? Only One Scheduled Run Canceled During Spell Of Bad Weather During The Past Week-End Only one of the regularly sche duled bus trips out of Southport was cancelled by the bad weather prevailing Saturday and Sunday. The bus which leaves for White ville each morning at 7:45 o'clock was blocked by trees having fall en across the highway at Old Dock in Columbus county and turned backt Manager Hubert Livingston of the W. B. & S re ports. All trips were made to and from Wilmington, with the buses being only an hour or two late on one or two of the trips. Wil liam Walker, driving one of the W. B. & S. buses due to arrive' here at 11 o'clock Saturday night, did not get in until about 2:30 o'clock. At sonic points near Wilmington he had to cut wires stretching across the road and too heavy with ice to be lifted. Sunday's use of automobiles In Southport was possibly heavier than on normal Sundays. TtM roads in town and nearby areas were all right for driving. Since riiany drivers could not get any distance out of town they con tended themselves with just rl4? ing aroun<\
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